The common weedy grasses Elytrigia repens (= Agropyron repens: quackgrass) and Phleum pratense (timothy) are now in flower in the Green Bay area. A few plants right along the curb flowered a few days earlier.

June 19

Geum canadense (white avens) has begun to flower, UW-Green Bay.

June 18

Melilotus alba (white sweet clover) beginning to flower in fields in the Green Bay area. A few plants were in flower along curbs, etc., beginning nearly a week ago.

Catalpa speciosa (northern catalpa) is in flower in the City of Green Bay now. This species is not native in northern Wisconsin, but seems to thrive in city plantings and the flowers are very conspicuous.

June 17

Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed) in flower, UWGB and widely in the City of Green Bay area..

June 16

The first few flowers of Heliopsis helianthoides (ox-eye) are open on UWGB's prairie.

While I was out of town for three days the following plants began to flower on the UWGB campus and Cofrin Arboretum: Achillea millefolium (Yarrow), Vicia cracca (cow vetch), Lotus corniculatus (bird's-foot trefoil).